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Show REPORT OF COUNTY INSPEC TOR. Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 31, '08. To the If on. Board of County Commissioners of Salt Lake County, and the Secretary of the State Board of Horticulture: Gentlemen: In the month of December De-cember the nurseries had1 a very hard ; time, as the first snow storm and frost caught them when their fall work was only half completed. Still, iby watching the time and weather very closely one nursery dug up, had inspected, and fumigated 9700 trees, 8000 of which were shipped out of the county. Another nursery dug and delivered 5000 peach trees. Another a nursery dug, had inspected, but not 4 fumigated, about 20,000 peach trees j and stored them away in houses. Again another nursery dug some 30,000 apples and 10,000 cherries These young apple trees were fumi- j gated and inspected for root diseases and a car load of them was shipped out of the county. In the sorting J und inspecting for root diseases, 4,00c trees have been condemned and most 1 of them burned. The others will be j burned as soon as the frost and snow j will permit. There arc now about J 45,000 trees in store houses to be fumigated' and about 150,000 to be sorted and inspected between now j and the commencement of the spring j delivery besides those already re- ' ported fumigated and inspected in the month of November. There ane also about 250,000 trees yet to -fee dug, fumigated, and inspected' for root disease when the spring digging and delivery ' commence. . Two deputies "have worked, ewe 21 dqys and the other 15 d.ays; 'Rajit. the timewtvas devoted to looking after af-ter trees being dug up and the bal-ancc bal-ancc of the time was given to the gathering statistics, which arc now complete' for the year and arc sub mittcd for your information and consideration. con-sideration. This is my report for the month of December, 1908. Respectfully, fjQHN P. SORENSEN, t Horticultural Inspector. |